July 27, 2026

Category: Playing

A Mind Wide Open, Lils, Playing

Her New Keyboard

Since, by the way, she’s a keyboard girl now, or so she says. She’s recording, writing, exploring, learning, replicating, programming, and performing. I hope to capture some video of her playing around, which she does daily, but in the mean time, she’s actually taken some of her own videos. Hoping to get them off her […]

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Tsankawi
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Tsankawi

And here was our afternoon… We talked about Africa, primarily Eastern Africa, and the region surrounding Kenya, where a friend Lily made last fall spends a fair portion of her time.     We also read: We’re exploring these topics, specifically on a global perspective. She’s learned that 100 cents = 1 dollar, and we’re […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Lils, Playing

Electromagnetism

      Electric Fields inside and outside a Magnetized Cold Plasma Sphere One of the four fundamental forces, the electromagnetic force manifests itself through the forces between charges (Coulomb’s Law) and the magnetic force, both of which are summarized in the Lorentz force law. Fundamentally, both magnetic and electric forces are manifestations of an […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Algebra, CDE Standards Reference, Creative Solution Generation, How We Learn Best, Imagination, Lils, Math Discoveries, Pattern Recognition, Playing

Dragonbox Algebra

Some of the stuff we’re learning concerning electromagnetism is exposing Lils to new items: lots of formulas and equations.  In our discussions on fractals and visual representations of math (including geometry), we have only scratched the surface of equations, but she’s seen the images/equations, and their results (as the computer generates imagery based upon a […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Lils, Playing

Petite

Lily has decided she likes coffee.. imagine that.   Does Caffeine Affect Growth Hormone Release? By Joseph PritchardSep 08, 2011 Slide 2 of 2 Contrary to popular belief, caffeine does not stunt growth. Instead, caffeine seems to stimulate growth hormone release, according to a study published in the 1984 issue of the “Journal of Endocrinological Investigation.” If caffeine stimulates […]

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A Mind Wide Open, CDE Standards Reference, Chemistry, Earth Science, Forming Complex Questions, Lils, Pattern Recognition, Physics, Playing

Plasma Lightsabers?

    A spin off the electricity/circuitry sessions for this week… Coming up next…. Lasers   Seeing light in a new way Scientists coax photons to bind into molecules for first time September 27, 2013 | Editor’s Pick By Peter Reuell, Harvard Staff Writer EmailTwitterFacebook Scientists from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology […]

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Titanic, Hindenburg, H2O, and Plasma

We began our day talking about H2O, then discussed the Titanic, then the Hindenburg, then Mark Twain, then helium, then steam and how the Titanic was powered, which led to evaporation and the water cycle, and how snow is formed. We then studied snow under the microscope, and then onto the Plasma ball and conductivity. […]

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